The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-10-01
CURRENT TOPICS.


GOVERNOR OGLEsnY, Of Illinois, is Mex
tcan war pcnsioncr.
THE Baroness Burdctt- Coutts and her
husband are coming to America.
JAY GOULD is buying Louisiana land
contiguous to his railway system.
GEORGE WESTINGHOUSE, JR., the inventor
of the air brake, is worth Sg,0OO,0O0.
HENRY GEORGE has been fined sl00 for
neglecting summons TO serve on jury.
ATLANTA, Ga, will be in the throes OF
another local option election November26
ELEPHsNTs' tusks are now mounted in
brass and made to hold ornamental parlor
lamps.
New YoIK is flooded with anarchist CIR
culars denouncing the Illinois Supreme
Court.
The annual silver product of North
America is $50, ,0UO,O 900; OF South America
$26,OOO,O 100.
A FIRM at Pottstown, Pa, is building an
iron bridge which Will be shipped to China
in sections.
GENERAL BouLANoER is said to be bidding
for the French Presidency, in succession
to NJ. Grevy.
SPIDERS are reported in Florida which
spin webs so strong that snakes are cntan-
gled in them.
SHERIFF KENDALL's recent raid on Colo
row Is said to have cost the State of Colo
RADIO 5000, 900.
A TEN-LiNE advertisement inserted once
in all the papers in the United States
would only cost SO, 600.
CARL ScHuRz says of newspaper report
ers that they "are the guardians OF truth
and personal liberty"
THE Count de Paris does not belle We in
republics. But unfortunately for the Count
the Frence people do.
IN Mexico laborers get eighteen to
twenty-five cents a day, and are often
paid in farm produce.
WASHINGTON is the best shaded city in
the world. At present there are $4,000
shade trees in its streets.
GENERAL HAwLEY says that London is
the most comfortable place in the world
In which to pass the summer.
IT is reported that there is to be whole
sale change in the list of officers at West
Point, which involves a social revolution
there.
NIHILIsM is fast spreading in Siberia,
where, during August, forty-ive guards
absconded and thirty-three prisoners es-
capped.
A NEW amusement at London fairs is
called "topsy-turvy." Its patrons are Sc
curely strapped in barrel and then rolled
about.
DAKOTA, Washington and Utah will
each have big lobby at work on Congress
next winter to secure admission into the
Union.
IT is no use trying to coax an autograph
from Gladstone. An application will only
result IN the receipt of Autograph on a
postal card.
THE best and the only sure way in which
a business man can prevent business be.
coming dull is to keep it well polished by
advertising.
KING HUMBERr, Of Italy, is only forty.
three years old, but his hair is nearly
white. He ia the hardest worked mon.
arch of Europe.
WHILE choppng wood in the forest, near
Albany, N. Y, Abraham Lewis, sixty-tive
years Of age, was attack by hornets and
stung to death.
MAYOR POND, of San Francisco, has re.
ceived letter from President Cleveland
declining the invitation to visit that city
owing to lack of time.
Miss MARY TUCKER, the young daughter
of a wealthy resident of Connecticut,
blackened her face and married her faith
er's colorcd coachman.
The Constitution of the United States is
one hundred years old, and it is far more
vigorous to-day and much more respected
than ever in it's history.
AN Iowa girl who was voted the hand.
soonest lady in the county tainted away
three times in succession when the joyful
news was brought to her.
A TRAVELLER announces that there are
nearly thousand synonyms in Arabic for
donkey. Conversation must be highly
complimentary in Arabic.
A REUNION of fifty brass band players is
announced to take place in Michigan
city, and the inhabitants are preparing for
vacation, where possible.
Two WOMEN in Chattanooga, Tenn are
engaged in a law suit over a tough old
gander. There are great many geese
outside of the poultry-yard.
THE Government is giving attention to
the purchase and preservation of the an
cient mounds, earthworks and fortifca-
tions found on this continent.
PROF. ELISHA GRAY was a carpc. ssr be
fore the war, and worked at Bro wnsylle
Pa. He has just made machine that re.
produces message Just as written.
A RESIDENT of st. Louis who waeered
$50 that he could tell margarine from but.
ter nine times out of ten, when put to the
test failed in seven cases out of ten.
AMERICA now holds the championship in
lawn tennis, ,croquet, prize-fghting, chess,
baseball, yachting, trotting and several
other fine arts of minor Importance
Hon. JOSEPH CILLEY, the oldest ex- United
States Senator, and veteran of the War
OF 1872, died in Nottingham, N. H., q few
days ago, ut the age of nnety-six years.
A FRENcHMAN is said to be writing q
book 'proving that the Bard of Avon was
u Frenchman," and that his name origin
ally was Jaques Pierre, or, in plain Eng
lish, John Peter.
The old school-house near Dwight's
Crossing, Mass, in which Henry Ward
Beecher preached his first sermon while
attending Amherst College, has been de-
stroyed by fire.
KArYDIDs and frefiies are articles of
trade in Japan. The former arc sold in
little bamboo cages for the sum of two
cents. The tirefiies are sold by the dozen
In little gauze cages, and are purahased
chiefly by juvenile customers.
TWENTY women at the New York cus.
tom-house now inspect women's baggage
brought from abroad. These .earchers
are ladies OF character-such, for instance,
as widowed sister of ex-senator Roscoe
she being one OF the twenty.
The new fashion in ladies' hats is q